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A “certain culture” is an euphemism for bad economy, I assume?
by wiseowise 11mo ago
A “certain culture” is an euphemism for bad economy, I assume?
- rightbyte 11mo agoWhen I was a kid the general setup seemed to be the poorer the kid the more toys and higher weekly allowance it had. To compensate I guess. Obviously not very poor but relatively poor.
- mft_ 10mo agoTotally the opposite, from my recollection. Number and value of child’s toys/belongings correlated directly with parental income, with parental attitude as an independent variable. For example, my parents were probably at the lower-end-of-comfortable but definitely not wealthy, but I had less money spent on me as a result of their beliefs around raising a child, and politics more broadly.
- sublinear 11mo agoIt can also be argued that when a culture seeks escapism it's because things are bad. In other words, there's no correlation.
- watwut 10mo agoNo, because it existed when economy was good too. It has nothing to do with economy state. It is more of moral judgement thing, completely divorced from both needs and outcomes.